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  1. Terence Crawford names the man he would face if weight wasn’t an issue: “He talks too much”

    Terence Crawford is once again being linked to a return to the sport despite his retirement in late…
    #NewsBeep #News #Boxing #Sports #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/825368/

  2. Tim Bradley tells Floyd Mayweather who to face on comeback between Terence Crawford or Ryan Garcia

    Reports of Floyd Mayweather’s professional return to boxing continue to do the rounds, with Terence Crawford and Ryan…
    #NewsBeep #News #Boxing #CA #Canada #Sports
    newsbeep.com/ca/961989/

  3. 5 years ago today, #Astro [Terence Wilson], English reggae-rock vocalist ( #UB40 - "Red Red Wine"), died at 64.
    #RIP 🪦

  4. Today, I'm going to watch this video about Math 2.0 by Terence Tao

    I assume/guess it is a exploration of a world where proofs are abundant, sometimes wrong, often awkward in some corners and difficult to read/understand

    I am not Mathematician (not professional). I use #maths I consume them, I play (at my own level only) with maths, BUT I am Engineer, focussed/specialized in Software Programming

    If you have your own Mathematician point of view on the subject, I am interested, deeply: dont hesitate to indicate me other pointers

    I am starting to see a parallel between Maths and Software Programming complexity, namely all the concerns about readability, understanding code/specs/proofs/bugs #cleancode #softwarecraft #goodpractice etc...

    I tend to start to see Mathematicians II as future software developer experts in their own domain, where human understanding/expertise is the important value

    As I am slowly constructing the idea, external influence/interference is naturally welcome

    youtube.com/watch?v=aHpPoNNTOKY

  5. DATE: November 5, 2026 at 04:00PM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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    TITLE: Psychologists petition to create a psychedelic science division within the APA

    URL: psypost.org/psychologists-peti

    A group of psychologists and researchers has launched an October 2026 petition to form a Division of Psychedelic Science and Practice within the American Psychological Association (APA), inviting APA members and fellows to sign in support of giving the field an official home inside the nation’s largest psychological organization.

    If approved, the group would become the APA’s 55th active division. The association has 56 numbered divisions, two of which are vacant, and has not added a new division since the creation of Division 56 (Trauma Psychology).

    Under Article VI of the APA Bylaws, establishing a new division requires petition signatures from at least 1% of the association’s members, followed by a two-thirds vote of the APA Council of Representatives at its mid-winter meeting.

    Even then, an initial vote is only the start: a newly approved division enters a candidacy period and must report back to the Council before receiving final approval. Council approval is not automatic; in 2014, the Council declined to approve a proposed Society for Technology and Psychology after opponents cited a bylaws provision stating that new divisions should not be inimical to existing ones.

    In their petition, the organizers point to two decades of advances in scientific research, professional training, clinical implementation, and public policy, including growing federal regulatory attention to psychedelic medicine. Those developments, the petition argues, have established psychedelic science and practice as “an enduring area of psychological inquiry rather than an emerging niche.”

    The effort comes amid a broader scientific and medical push to test psychedelics as mental health treatments. Over the past 20 years, major academic medical centers have opened dedicated psychedelic research units, and clinical trials have tested compounds such as psilocybin and MDMA alongside psychotherapy for treatment-resistant depression, substance use disorders, cancer-related distress, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

    Still, the field faces regulatory hurdles: the Food and Drug Administration has not approved any classic psychedelic or MDMA therapy for clinical use, and in August 2024 the agency declined to approve Lykos Therapeutics’ application for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, citing concerns over trial design and safety data.

    Even so, federal activity has continued in 2026, with the FDA issuing final clinical trial guidance for psychedelic drugs, granting priority review vouchers to several psilocybin and methylone development programs following an April 2026 presidential executive order, and receiving a resubmitted MDMA application from Lykos’s successor, Resilient Pharmaceuticals, in August 2026.

    According to the petition, the proposed division would give psychologists a dedicated forum to study how psychedelic treatments work, how patients are screened and assessed, how therapeutic preparation and post-session integration are conducted, and what ethical and societal questions the treatments raise.

    A central argument of the petition is that the psychological dimensions of psychedelic care do not fit neatly within pharmacology or prescribing frameworks alone. While APA Division 55 (Society for Prescribing Psychology) focuses on prescribing and psychopharmacology within a medical model, the petitioners write that their proposed division would examine “altered states of consciousness, therapeutic mechanisms of change, preparation and integration processes,” along with cultural and ethical issues and “the psychological factors that mediate outcomes.”

    “Central among psychology’s contributions is its capacity to investigate how altered states of consciousness (occasioned within structured, therapeutic, and ethically supported environments) influence cognition, emotion, behavior, learning, memory, meaning-making, therapeutic processes, and integration.”

    Petition for the APA Division of Psychedelic Science and Practice

    Answering those questions, the petitioners argue, is necessary to translate research findings into safe, ethical, and equitable clinical care. Rather than replacing or duplicating existing divisions, the proposed body is designed to serve as “interdisciplinary connective tissue” within the APA, drawing members who hold primary affiliations across 13 listed divisions, among others, including clinical, counseling, military, humanistic, health, addiction, prescribing, and trauma psychology, as well as Division 28 (Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse).

    The organizers write that the division would act as a “translational bridge between basic science and actionable frameworks for practicing psychologists.” It would also support APA-aligned continuing education and “emerging clinical competency frameworks” for patient selection, preparation, and integration. In addition, the petition says the division would “foster thoughtful discussion regarding emerging best practices in harm reduction and ethical guidance” for nonprescribing clinicians whose patients use psychedelics on their own or outside of clinical settings, while offering a venue to weigh ethical, cultural, and regulatory questions.

    In keeping with Article VI of the APA Bylaws, the group would operate as a member-led scholarly and professional community rather than a credentialing body. The petition notes that the division would not grant clinical licenses, specialty recognition, certifications, or prescribing authority, and that any educational materials or consensus recommendations it produces would remain separate from official APA policy.

    Under APA Association Rule 100-2.1, each of the 10 members of the steering committee has pledged a continuing interest in the division and agreed to accept membership if it is established. The committee includes nine psychologists and a doctoral student in transpersonal psychology whose backgrounds span academic clinical trials, addiction and trauma treatment, military mental health, and state and national psychological associations. At least two committee members, Brian Richards and Chantelle Thomas, also have employment, consulting, or ownership ties in the psychedelic therapy sector.

    Matthew W. Johnson, PhD recently joined the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University to lead a new research program focused on psychiatric and substance use disorders, following a tenure at Sheppard Pratt and more than two decades at Johns Hopkins University beginning in 2004. Described in his professional biographies as one of the world’s most widely published experts on psychedelics, Johnson authored the 2008 safety guidelines for human hallucinogen research, contributed to Johns Hopkins studies of psilocybin for cancer-related distress and depression, and led pioneering trials on psilocybin for tobacco addiction. In 2021, he received the first federal grant in 50 years for a treatment study with a classic psychedelic. He is also a past president of APA Division 28 (Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse).

    Richard T. Barnett, PsyD, MSCP, LADC is a licensed clinical psychologist, licensed alcohol and drug counselor, and clinical psychopharmacologist in private practice in Stowe, Vermont. He served as president of APA Division 55 (Society for Prescribing Psychology) in 2020, served as president of the Vermont Psychological Association from 2011 to 2014, and chaired Vermont’s Psychedelic Therapy Advisory Group, which was established by Act 126 in 2024. Trained in psychedelic therapy through the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and in ketamine therapy through the Polaris Insight Center and the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute, he co-founded the Psychedelic Society of Vermont and founded the addiction recovery nonprofit CARTER, Inc. in 2015.

    Christopher R. Nicholas, PhD is a clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, as well as a faculty member in UW-Madison’s Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances. He studies psilocybin, MDMA, 5-MeO-DMT, and ketamine for addiction, PTSD, chronic pain, and depression, including studies of psilocybin for methamphetamine and opioid use disorders. He also served as a site co-principal investigator and therapist on MAPS’ Phase 3 trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for severe PTSD.

    Brian D. Richards, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and Experiential Medicine Program Development Director at Gladstone Psychiatry and Wellness. The son of psychedelic researcher Bill Richards, PhD, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit, where he worked on psilocybin studies for cancer patients, and later served as a lead psychologist on a simultaneous high-dose group psilocybin trial with cancer patients at the Bill Richards Center for Healing in Rockville, Maryland, affiliated with Sunstone Therapies.

    Chantelle Thomas, PhD is a clinical psychologist and executive clinical director of Windrose Recovery, a residential addiction treatment center in Wisconsin. She has worked on University of Wisconsin clinical trials investigating psilocybin for addiction and depression and MDMA for PTSD, and serves as a supervisor and trainer on MAPS-sponsored MDMA trials. According to financial disclosures accompanying a Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) webinar, she has served as a consultant or educator for Lykos, MindMed, the Usona Institute, Fluence, and Polaris, and is part owner of Integrata.

    Ronit Kishon, PhD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She provides psychological support to patients with treatment-resistant depression in a psilocybin clinical trial at the Depression Evaluation Service at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. In 2025, she and Yael Cycowicz co-authored a perspective article in Frontiers in Psychiatry titled “Psychedelic therapy: bridging neuroplasticity, phenomenology, and clinical outcomes.”

    Mark Bates, PhD is a clinical psychologist and retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel. He was an airlift pilot for his first nine years on active duty before becoming a clinical psychologist, earning his PhD at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and later directing the Resilience and Prevention Directorate at the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. He was also lead author of a 2010 paper on psychological fitness written as part of the military’s Total Force Fitness framework.

    Sheila H. Gardner, PhD is a licensed counseling psychologist practicing in Durham, New Hampshire.

    Terence Penn, PhD is a clinical psychologist who earned his doctorate from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School before joining the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research as a postdoctoral fellow.

    Abi Dorhosti is a 25-year military veteran who served as a commander in the U.S. Air Force. She is the founder of the Amistar Foundation and a PhD student in transpersonal psychology at Sofia University.

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  6. Day 7 · 10-minute map. What’s on the other side of the world? I flipped every country to its antipode (the point straight through the centre of the Earth) and overlaid them on a map. Turns out we mostly end up in the ocean, so uh...don't dig?

  7. Oh! This is new and cool. #Firefox for Android now automatically offers to search the Wayback Machine if it can't find the original page.

    Easily the best browser on Android.

  8. Day 6 · Vintage. Payphones in Tokyo's 23 wards. Of 1,863 recorded in OSM, only 218 have been confirmed still standing since 2021. Styled after old Japanese city maps, red dots are confirmed phones. Grey circles are ghosts. The grid is the 1 km mesh Japan uses to count its disaster-lifeline phones.

    OSM coverage is uneven though, so missing points may be unmapped rather than empty.

    Built in with and

  9. 🆕 blog! “A video game which caused real world violence”

    There has been a dramatic fall in the amount of interpersonal violence in most countries.

    I don't want to go too Freakanomics and, obviously, correlation is not causation but perhaps video games have a role to play in this? A teenager being cooped up in their room means less exposure to…

    👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/11/a-vid
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    #AugmentedReality #games #mobile #NaBloPoMo

  10. A video game which caused real world violence

    shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/11/a-vid

    There has been a dramatic fall in the amount of interpersonal violence in most countries.

    I don't want to go too Freakanomics and, obviously, correlation is not causation but perhaps video games have a role to play in this? A teenager being cooped up in their room means less exposure to situations where hormonal impertinence is likely to cause a violent reaction. Shouting and screaming at people via a headset rarely leads to real-life consequences. Beating up street-fighters is less risky than being in a street fight yourself.

    But there are times when games do cause problems away from the screen. Players of Pokémon Go ramble about outside trying to collect digital pets - this also causes them to trespass into military bases.

    I was recently reminded of one of the first Augmented Reality Games - Mozzies. Back in 2004 having a phone with a camera was almost unheard of. The Mozzies game let you see virtual mosquitoes overlayed on the real world - and then shoot them.

    Waving your cameraphone around while playing caused at least one case of physical violence.

    Here's a report from Singapore's The New Paper on 6 October 2004.

    I'm grateful to Esme Potatoes for helping me find a transcript.

    Playing game or snapping girl? Then… SMASH!

    The incident happened while he and his friends were at Orchard Cineleisure for a movie recently.

    Before the movie started at 7pm, his friends went to E-Zone, an arcade in the same building. The Indonesian student, who has lived in Singapore for more than 10 years, preferred to wait outside and play his favourite game, Mozzies, on his Siemens phone.

    The game, which involves killing mosquitoes that appear on screen, requires the use of the phone's camera.

    The camera captures a live video image as the game's playing background, with the mosquitoes appearing in the foreground.

    The player has to move the phone around to target the mosquitoes.

    Heriyono said: "I was so engrossed with the mosquitoes, I became oblivious to my surroundings."

    "Then, I saw through the phone, a figure behind the swarm of mosquitoes heading in my direction but I thought he was just passing by."

    Heriyono claims the man then shouted: “Trying to take a photo of my girlfriend, is it?”

    And he smashed the phone on the floor.

    Heriyono said he told the man, whom he estimates to be in his mid- or late 20s, that it was a misunderstanding and that he could check the phone for himself to see if he had indeed taken pictures of the man’s girlfriend.

    But the phone was so badly damaged it could not be turned on.

    “I was really shocked. He was behaving very aggressively, I thought he was going to hit me,” Heriyono said.

    MAN WALKED OFF

    But the man then walked off with his girlfriend, he said.

    Heriyono and his friends decided not to chase after the man because he was older and they were worried he could get violent.

    Heriyono did not make a police report either.

    He was worried the man may get to him again, and refused to be photographed for this report.

    When contacted, Siemens Mobile said it has never received any complaints about the games on its handphones. (See other report.)

    The Mozzies game is available only on the Siemens SX1 model.

    Heriyono had bought the handphone about four months earlier for over $700, after convincing his parents that it would be worth it because he uses all its functions, including the radio and MP3 player.

    And he particularly liked the Mozzies game.

    “In the end, the game caused me so much trouble,” he said with a sigh.

    He sent the phone to the Siemens service centre but was told it was beyond repair.

    His friends told him later that his actions could have looked suspicious.

    “I realised that I could have looked like a pervert if seen by a passer-by,” he admitted.

    “The thrill took over basic common sense and I began pointing my camera around.”

    The girl was playing “air hockey” with her boyfriend at the time.

    Miss Nalia Suli, 18, the receptionist at E-Zone, said she saw the commotion.

    She said: “The girl was dressed very sexily. Her skirt was very short and when she bent down to pick up the ball, you could see her underwear.”

    She, too, thought Heriyono was taking pictures of the girl.

    “If he wasn’t taking pictures, why was the camera facing up?”

    But Heriyono said: “Yes I could have pointed to the floor. But the mosquitoes are everywhere on the screen, you have to move around to kill them.”

    He is now using a handphone he has borrowed from a friend, until he saves up enough to buy another. “I think after this incident, I will buy a much cheaper phone,” he said.

    Perhaps staying inside to play games is safer all round!

    #AugmentedReality #games #mobile #NaBloPoMo
  11. Day 5 #30DayMapChallenge · Sight. The view from Tochigi: the peaks of the Japanese Alps as layered ridgelines, with Mt. Fuji standing alone on the left.

    #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz #mtfuji #japan

  12. Day 4 #30DayMapChallenge · Clusters. Which is the most populous konbini chain in each prefecture? 7-Eleven has the most stores but not everywhere.

    #rstats #rayshader #dataviz #japan #konbini

  13. 🆕 blog! “Gadget Review: Tozo NC9 Pro Bluetooth Headphones”
    ★★★★⯪

    The most interesting thing about these headphones isn't the headphones; it's their case.

    The good folks at Tozo have sent me a pair of their new ear-blasters. They're a fairly standard pair of in-ear headphones. Sound quality is good, noise cancelling is excellent, battery…

    👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/11/gadge
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    #bluetooth #gadget #NaBloPoMo #Review #USB-C

  14. z informacji od Polskiego Towarzystwa Stwardnienia Rozsianego:

    Trudności w dostępie do porgamu lekowego B.29
    Dramatyczna sytuacja w dostępności do programu lekowego B.29 jest faktem. Nie spoczywamy w naszych działaniach ponieważ istotne jest by dostęp do programu lekowego był realny, szybki i równy na terenie całego kraju.
    Temat był już omawiany na posiedzeniu Parlamentarnego Zespołu ds. Stwardnienia Rozsianego oraz, w tym tygodniu, na spotkaniu Doradczej Komisji Medycznej PTSR. O sytuacji zostali poinformowani parlamentarzyści, przedstawiciele Biura Rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich oraz przedstawiciele Ministerstwa Zdrowia. Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia poproszony o skomentowanie sytuacji odpowiedział, że nie otrzymuje żadnych sygnałów od pacjentów informujących o problemach.
    Dlatego mamy do Was ogromną prośbę o wsparcie naszych działań! Jeżeli odmówiono Wam przyjęcia do programu lekowego, informujcie o tym Wojewódzkie Oddziały NFZ, najlepiej na piśmie.

    https://ptsr.org.pl

    #stwardnieie_rozsiane #program_lekowy #leczenie #nfz #polska #fuck_ms

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